Fatal Encounters

A step toward creating an impartial, comprehensive and searchable national database of people killed during interactions with police

Virginia Verdee

Name: Virginia Verdee
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Race: African-American/Black
Date: 09/23/2005
Location: Grand Concourse and E. 183rd Street
Bronx, New York, 10468
County: Bronx
Agency: City of New York Police Department
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Vehic/Purs
Media summary: Initial reports claimed that the off-duty narcotics officer who ran over and killed Verdee with his Jeep on the sidewalk was rushing his pregnant wife to the hospital. Police used pepper spray on a witness, tackled her for taking photographs, and wrote her a summons. Police withheld the driver's name from the victim's mother.
Unique ID: 4556

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